The Black Dancing Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Dancing Body write by B. Gottschild. This book was released on 2016-04-30. The Black Dancing Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer that question, Brenda Dixon Gottschild maps an unorthodox 'geography', the geography of the black dancing body, to show the central place black dance has in American culture. From the feet to the butt, to hair to skin/face, and beyond to the soul/spirit, Brenda Dixon Gottschild talks to some of the greatest choreographers of our day including Garth Fagan, Francesca Harper, Meredith Monk, Brenda Buffalino, Doug Elkins, Ralph Lemon, Fernando Bujones, Bill T. Jones, Trisha Brown, Jawole Zollar, Bebe Miller, Sean Curran and Shelly Washington to look at the evolution of black dance and it's importance to American culture. This is a groundbreaking piece of work by one of the foremost African-American dance critics of our day.
The Black Dancing Body
The Black Dancing Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Black Dancing Body write by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. This book was released on 2003. The Black Dancing Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author invites the reader on a journey of sorts and says, "The black dancing body (a fiction based on reality, a fact based upon illusion) has infiltrated and informed the shapes and changes of the American dancing body."
Meaning in Motion
Meaning in Motion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meaning in Motion write by Jane Desmond. This book was released on 1997. Meaning in Motion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On dance and culture
Dancing Many Drums
Dancing Many Drums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dancing Many Drums write by Thomas F. Defrantz. This book was released on 2002-04-01. Dancing Many Drums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history, theory, and practice. In so doing, it reevaluates "black" and "African American " as both racial and dance categories. Abundantly illustrated, the volume includes images of a wide variety of dance forms and performers, from ring shouts, vaudeville, and social dances to professional dance companies and Hollywood movie dancing. Bringing together issues of race, gender, politics, history, and dance, Dancing Many Drums ranges widely, including discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham’s controversial ballet about lynching, Southland. In addition, there are two photo essays: the first on African dance in New York by noted dance photographer Mansa Mussa, and another on the 1934 "African opera," Kykunkor, or the Witch Woman.
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance
Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance write by Brenda D. Gottschild. This book was released on 1998-06-30. Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work examines the African presence in various types of American dance forms. It argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been 'invisibilised' by racism, and investigates its presence as a major factor in shaping American performance.
